This photo is of the Burwalde school ground showing the school on the left, a small shack and white building on the right. In the background, on the horizion a windmill can be seen.

This photo is of the Burwalde school grounds from a different angle than the previous photo, 639:59. The school on the left, two small buildings on the right and on the horizion a windmill. Long shadows of fence posts and a person are in the foreground.

This photo is of the windmill at Burwalde Manitoba framed with an oval and is the same image as the one previous, 639:62 but some of the context of the photo have been hidden due to the frame. The mill in this photo is not operational. The sails have been removed. The door stands open with a bicycle leaning against the building. Houses can be seen in the background on the left.

This photo is of the windmill at Burwalde Manitoba. The mill in this photo is not operational. The sails have been removed. The door stands open with a bicycle leaning against the building. Houses can be seen in the background on the left.

This photo is of farm fields in the late fall. In the foreground, fence and farm houses and two windmills in the background. The photo was taken in the Red River Settlement area known as Middle Settlement.

This photo is "after a painting by Paul Kane" depicting Fort Garry of the Red River settlement. In the foreground is a road that runs past a windmill and farm yards.

This photo is of a large wooden gear inside the windmill at Steinbach and it's wooden cogs meshing with a metal gear that is attached to a shaft for the grinding of grain.

This photo is of the large wooden gear with wooden cogs that engages the metal gear. The photo shows good detail of how the gear is constructed.

This photo is a close up of the stone grinding wheel inside the windmill at Steinbach.

This photo is of a large wooden gear inside the windmill at the Mennonite Village Museum in Steinbach. The was destroyed due to arson on October 22, 2000.

This photo is of a large wooden gear and its wooden cogs meshing with a metal gear that is attached to a shaft to grind wheat. The large gear is called the ‘spurwheel’, and the smaller one is the ‘gaunt shaft gear’. These gears transfer the power from the 'counter shaft’ to the ‘gaunt shaft’, which then turns the milling stone.

This photo is of a sack being filled with flour. After the wheat has been ground into flour, the flour travels down a chute and fills a sack with flour. An empty bag sits attached to the chute. Full bags are seen on the left.

This photo is of the main shaft coming into the wooden housing in which the stone grinding wheel sits and where the wheat is added for grinding.

This photo is of two gears inside the windmill at the Mennonite Heriteg Village Museum in Steinbach. A wheel with wooden cogs fits inside another gear with metal slots in which the cogs fit.

This photo is of one of the two shafts attached to a stone grinding stone in the windmill. The visible stone is called the ‘bedstone’. It is the lower of two stones that do the grinding. The top stone is called the ‘runner stone’. In this picture, you see the ‘bedstone’ only for the purpose of explaining the grinding process to visitors and school tours.